Tag: off piste

Photo of the Week: Saying Farewell to Winter

Even with mountain snowfall in the forecast for Friday night into Saturday – and next week, too – there’s no doubt that Spring is finally here. With this past Monday night’s fresh snow, and then relatively cold, powder-preserving temps prevailing through mid week, Wednesday shaped up to be one last fantastic day to be out …

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Photo of the Week: “Time to Ski, Dadda”

Our two year old daughter, Maiana Snow, prepares for some top-of-the-mountain ski time after riding on her dadda’s back into a favorite powder stash along Vermont’s Green Mountain divide. After a skiing a few mellow pitches b/w our legs, or those of her good buddy Ian (see second photo), or whoever else is along that …

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Photo of the Week: Midnight Pow Pow

Skier: Noah Ranallo It’s possible that Tuesday night (Mar 3) was the pinnacle of this winter season in Vermont. By 8pm, fresh snow from another passing weather system was piling up fast…freshening the surface of a deep snow pack unaffected by warm temps or wet precip for nearly two months. We knew that above freezing …

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Photo of the Week: Green Mountain Gold

The new snow we picked up late last week and weekend (16″+ in some areas) set us up for a beautiful stretch of skiing over this past week in Vermont, especially in our more sheltered, upper-elevation forests. Steeper lines characterized by narrow drainages, rocky ledges and frozen waterfalls are in rare form right now, and …

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Photo of the Week: Really Cold Smoke

There’s nothing like a late-afternoon mission into some favorite local steeps on a windy, -5F degree afternoon in Vermont’s Green Mountains to get the powder flying… After 30+ days of cold and snow, snow, snow, it’s incredible how commonplace scenes like this have become. And it’s only mid-February. Ski you out there. -Brian LIKE AdventureSkier.com …

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